Why I should never retire: because I’ll starve on the street. Unfortunately I’m getting old enough that no one is going to want to employ me. So I guess I’ll starve on the street and serve as an incentive to others to work harder for the man.
You’re ahead of your time. The trend of most of our futures right here.
Cruises and golf? What a shallow, sad view of retirement. My uncle goes to Florida in the winter and fishes off of various docks and camps, and spends time with his grandkids, and ducks around with gadgets the rest of the year.
They’re cliches that only apply to affluent boomers.
When I worked at a bank I went to a work-sponsored golf outing and it was both way more fun and required way more physical effort than I was anticipating. I’m not going to go out of my way to go golfing again but I certainly won’t turn down an invite if I’m ever invited golfing again
Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling
I agree with this opinion.
… you should never retire.
I’d retire tomorrow if I had the financial security to do so.
I know a guy who left retirement because he felt purposeless. The reason we likely hate work is because we have to do it.
If I knew I didn’t have to worry about money, I would consider focusing on my tech career as it’s something to do rather than worrying about how to keep a job. Maybe focus on charity maybe.
Definitely keep saving for retirement, last thing you need is to HAVE TO WORK for the rest of your life.
I’m with you. Aimless wandering through night and day, and consuming stuff to distract from the lack of direction in life is pleasing only to a certain point.
That’s not what gaslighting means, OP.
It’s one of those terms people are so rabidly eager to use that any excuse will do. Look at what happened to ‘reboot’.
Gaslighting doesn’t exist, you’re just crazy.
Wait, it’s a column called Bartleby about working more than you want to?
I would prefer not to consider this angle.
This has got to be satire right?
My parents have spent the decades of their retirements volunteering and helping their neighbors.
Even the person in their little splash graphic looks like they’re hiding their pain
One of the reasons I decided to leave the US. Yes, the Economist is British but the US has the same problem. I realized chances are I will never save enough for retirement, my 401k planner even says so. So I am moving back to the country that allowed my father to retire in his 50s. 10 years ago when I started working in the US I didn’t expect this outcome, and the longer I stay here the longer it will take me to improve my conditions.
Not working, however, is quite fulfilling.
That’s not ‘gaslighting’?
I think its good to keep working, but only doing the things that you actually enjoy or have value outside of a paycheck. When I “retired” I found it kind of hollow and it was not all it was supposed to be.
I think that’s called having a hobby
I’d personally love to see retired people getting into DnD for the first time. I imagine if everyone is retired it’d be easier to schedule out.